{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-43a-43a-10-110","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-10-110","heading":"Confidentiality of records and reports","body":"A. The reports, records, and working papers used or developed\n\nin an investigation of the circumstances of a vulnerable adult\n\npursuant to the provisions of the Protective Services for Vulnerable\n\nAdults Act are confidential and may be disclosed only pursuant to\n\nrules promulgated by the Director of Human Services or the State\n\nCommissioner of Health, by order of the court, or as otherwise\n\nprovided by this section or Section 10-110.1 of this title.\n\nB. Agency records of the Department of Human Services or the\n\nOffice of Client Advocacy within the State Department of Health\n\npertaining to a vulnerable adult may be inspected and their contents\n\ndisclosed without a court order to the following persons upon\n\nshowing of proper credentials and pursuant to their lawful duties:\n\n1. A district attorney and the employees of an office of a\n\ndistrict attorney in the course of their official duties pursuant to\n\nthis title or the prosecution of crimes against vulnerable adults;\n\n2. The attorney representing a vulnerable adult who is the\n\nsubject of a proceeding pursuant to the provisions of the Protective\n\nServices for Vulnerable Adults Act;\n\n3. Employees of a law enforcement agency of this or another\n\nstate and employees of protective services for vulnerable adults of\n\nanother state;\n\n4. A physician who has before him or her a vulnerable adult\n\nwhom the physician reasonably suspects may have been abused or\n\nneglected or any health care or mental health professional involved\n\nin the evaluation or treatment of the vulnerable adult;\n\n5. A caretaker, legal guardian, custodian or other family\n\nmembers of the vulnerable adult; provided, the appropriate state\n\nentity may limit such disclosures to summaries or to information\n\ndirectly necessary for the purpose of such disclosure;\n\n6. Any public or private agency or person authorized by the\n\nDepartment to diagnose, provide care and treatment to a vulnerable\n\nadult who is the subject of a report or record of vulnerable adult\n\nabuse or neglect;\n\n7. Any public or private agency or person authorized by the\n\nDepartment to supervise or provide other services to a vulnerable\n\nadult who is the subject of a report or record of vulnerable adult\n\nabuse or neglect; provided, the Department may limit such disclosure\n\nto summaries or to information directly necessary for the purpose of\n\nsuch disclosure; and\n\n8. Any person or agency for research purposes, if all of the\n\nfollowing conditions are met:\n\na. the person or agency conducting such research is\n\nemployed by the State of Oklahoma or is under contract\n\nwith this state and is authorized by the Director of\n\nHuman Services and the State Commissioner of Health to\n\nconduct such research, and\n\nb. the person or agency conducting the research ensures\n\nthat all documents containing identifying information\n\nare maintained in secure locations and access to such\n\ndocuments by unauthorized persons is prohibited; that\n\nno identifying information is included in documents\n\ngenerated from the research conducted; and that all\n\nidentifying information is deleted from documents used\n\nin the research when the research is completed.\n\nC. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting\n\nthe appropriate state entity from disclosing such confidential\n\ninformation as may be necessary to secure appropriate care,\n\ntreatment or protection of a vulnerable adult alleged to be abused\n\nor neglected.\n\nD. Records and their contents disclosed pursuant to this\n\nsection shall remain confidential. The use of such information\n\nshall be limited to the purposes for which disclosure is authorized.\n\nIt shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to furnish any\n\nrecord or disclose any information contained therein for any\n\nunauthorized purpose.\n\nE. Records of investigations conducted pursuant to the\n\nProtective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act shall not be expunged\n\nexcept by court order.\nhe use of such information\n\nshall be limited to the purposes for which disclosure is authorized.\n\nIt shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to furnish any\n\nrecord or disclose any information contained therein for any\n\nunauthorized purpose.\n\nE. Records of investigations conducted pursuant to the\n\nProtective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act shall not be expunged\n\nexcept by court order.\n\n1. If the Department is currently or was previously appointed\n\nas temporary guardian of the alleged victim of abuse, neglect,\n\nfinancial exploitation, or financial neglect, any petition or motion\n\nrequesting expungement of the investigative records of the\n\nDepartment shall be filed under the same case number.\n\n2. Written notice of the hearing and a copy of any such\n\npetition or motion shall be properly and timely served upon:\n\na. the alleged victim of abuse, neglect, financial\n\nexploitation, or financial neglect,\n\nb. the Department’s Office of General Counsel and any\n\nother counsel of record in a proceeding in which the\n\nDepartment was appointed as temporary guardian, and\n\nc. all other persons due notice in a guardianship\n\nproceeding involving the victim pursuant to Section 3-\n\n110 of Title 30 of the Oklahoma Statutes.","path":["OK Code","Title 43A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os43A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"ddf15b67011bbdfa6b446b2d053c98c847971447bee22fff17c6110cbd21b3f8","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-43a-43a-10-109a","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-43a-43a-10-110.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}